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Dave Ibemere

Education: Bachelor of Science Mass Communication (2015), Master of Science Mass Communication University of Lagos (2018), Google News Initiative (GNI) News Lab: Advanced digital reporting 2024

Experience: Business/Financial Analyst, BusinessDay Newspaper (2017-2019), Data journalist/financial analyst, Dataphyte (2019), Business Editor/HOD, Ripples Nigeria (2019-2021)

Awards: Staff of the Year, BusinessDay Research (2019), Awardee IFRA (French government) research award, UNILAG(2018), Information is a Beautiful international award-longlist nominee (2019), Top Business Editor Legit.ng (2022, 2023, 2024)

Dave Ibemere is a senior business editor at Legit.ng. He is a financial journalist with over a decade of experience in print and online media. He also holds a Master's degree from the University of Lagos. He is a member of the African Academy for Open-Source Investigation (AAOSI), the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations and other media think tank groups. He previously worked with The Guardian, BusinessDay, and headed the business desk at Ripples Nigeria. Email: dave.ibemere@corp.legit.ng.

5562 articles published since 20 Sep 2021

Author's articles

List of 10 most innovative countries in Africa as Nigeria's ranking is shocking despite N2trn budget in 4yrs

List of 10 most innovative countries in Africa as Nigeria's ranking is shocking despite N2trn budget in 4yrs

Technology

3 years ago

Restaurant owner disgraces customer in video after he tried to pay with the new Naira notes after eating

Restaurant owner disgraces customer in video after he tried to pay with the new Naira notes after eating

Money

3 years ago

German embassy releases update on use of naira payment for visa, other services

German embassy releases update on use of naira payment for visa, other services

Money

3 years ago

Bitcoin lost More than 60% of Its value in 2022 as $2.1trn investors' money is wiped out from crypto market

Bitcoin lost More than 60% of Its value in 2022 as $2.1trn investors' money is wiped out from crypto market

Money

3 years ago

Naira records all-time fall against dollar at official market as foreign reserves drop by N151.9m in 22 days

Naira records all-time fall against dollar at official market as foreign reserves drop by N151.9m in 22 days

Money

3 years ago

Nigerians Spend over N166m Watching Movies on Christmas weekend despite economic hardship

Nigerians Spend over N166m Watching Movies on Christmas weekend despite economic hardship

Money

3 years ago

Immigration releases three easy steps to fast-track your passport renewal process in two weeks

Immigration releases three easy steps to fast-track your passport renewal process in two weeks

Economy

3 years ago

The Nigerian Immigration Service has issued a detailed steps on how Nigerians wishing to renew their passports during the holidays may do so in only two weeks.

Top six funding options available for Nigerian entrepreneurs in 2023

Top six funding options available for Nigerian entrepreneurs in 2023

Economy

3 years ago

Hundreds of entrepreneurs walk away annually with various degrees of business funding and other forms of empowerment from various types of investors.

WhatsApp announces fresh update for ‘delete for me’ function which will finally give users peace of mind

WhatsApp announces fresh update for ‘delete for me’ function which will finally give users peace of mind

Technology

3 years ago

Popular social media app WhatsApp, owned by Meta has announced a new update on how users can retrieve messages deleted by mistake when users use “delete for me”

Twitter employees fired by Elon Musk build alternative app, number of users grow to 20,000 in hours

Twitter employees fired by Elon Musk build alternative app, number of users grow to 20,000 in hours

Technology

3 years ago

Ex-employees of Twitter have decided to develop a similar new social media app after they were sacked by Elon Musk when he took over the company in November.

Flutterwave, four other Nigerian tech startup companies that struck the biggest deals

Flutterwave, four other Nigerian tech startup companies that struck the biggest deals

Money

3 years ago

In 2022, five Nigerian startups were able to again attract global and local investors to trust in their ideas to raise more than N300 billion from investors

NEITI Report shows NNPC, FIRS, 2 others generated N28 trillion revenue for Nigeria in 3 years

NEITI Report shows NNPC, FIRS, 2 others generated N28 trillion revenue for Nigeria in 3 years

Economy

3 years ago

A new report from the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has revealed how the Federal government of Nigeria received alert of N28trn.

Ghanaian government announces plans to sell 17 public companies to raised funds amid debt crises

Ghanaian government announces plans to sell 17 public companies to raised funds amid debt crises

Economy

3 years ago

The Ghanaian government is looking at selling some of its state-owned companies not generating enough revenue and causing serious stress to the national purse.

Mum orders surprise laptop Christmas gift for her daughter and gets box of cornflakes instead, company reacts

Mum orders surprise laptop Christmas gift for her daughter and gets box of cornflakes instead, company reacts

Money

3 years ago

A mother was forced to apologize to her daughter when a surprise Christmas gift was delivered with a different item and the firm refused to issue a refund.

Shell to pay more than N7.14bn to four farmers and their communities in Niger Delta

Shell to pay more than N7.14bn to four farmers and their communities in Niger Delta

Energy

3 years ago

he Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) and its headquarters have agreed to pay Nigerian farmers and communities over N7 billion for oil spill.

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